Christine Tierney is a poet, artist, disco lover, and closeted comedian. Her first chapbook, make me unsick was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Gambling The Aisle Chapbook Contest, and as a semi-finalist for the 2017 Elyse Wolf Chapbook Contest. She holds an MFA from The University of Maine's Stonecoast Writing Program and a BA in film from Emerson College. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and the Best New Poets anthology, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Fourteen Hills, Poet Lore, Permafrost, PMS, The Tusculum Review, descant, The Yalobusha Review, The Broome Review, Sanskrit, Skidrow Penthouse, Shadowbox, Tattoo Highway, Soundzine, Cider Press Review, Sugar House Review, Gemini Magazine, theNewerYork, Lungfull!, AEROGRAM, This Literary Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Pismire, scissors & spackle, Weave Magazine, Meat For Tea, Star 82 Review, Tell Us A Story, Lingerpost, inter/rupture, Sleet Magazine, Toad Suck Review, Shuf Poetry, great weather for MEDIA, Threadcount, If and Only If, The Boiler Journal, Folia Literary Magazine, LEVELER, Thrice Fiction, Weirderary, Fog Machine, Otis Nebula, The Offbeat, DASH Literary Journal, and The Nervous Breakdown.
